The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-09-08
Successful Beyond Expectation.

Successful Beyond Expectation.
Senator Browns father, who, just after
the war of 1S12-1S15 with Great Britain,
in which be was soldier, moved to Bed
ford county, Tennessee, near selbyville,
and lived there for several years, used to
be fond of telling an anecdote which oc.
cured, we believe, at the home ofone of
his neighbors.
1t tseems that the party's hogs had been
getting into his own field destroying his
corn, etc., and at last, becoming consid-
erably out of patience with them he de.
termined that he would adopt ruse
which he thought would probably stop
their depredations, at least for time.
Accordingly, this plan was put into
operation a few mornings afterward,
when some one came running up to the
house and stated that the hogs were in
the corn again.
Going down with several of the boys,
he managed to seperate big old boar,
that was generally the ring-leader in the
mischief, from the rest of his comrades,
and drove him up to the house, and sue.
ceeded in corralling him in pen. He
then went into the house and got the skin
of "a bear, which he had shot only q few
days before, and bringing it>out, manag.
ed with the help of the boys to get the
boar down and tie his legs together until
they could succeed in fastening the bear
skin around him, which was done in q
pretty snug manner, there being enough
Of open space left in front for him to see
through tolerably we'll. BE then loosed
his legs and turned him out of the pen
and started him down toward the field
where the rest Of the drove had been left
for few minutes.
The hog was very much frightened by
the new sort of appendage which was
fastened to him, and broke for his com.
rades as fast as his legs could carry him.
The farmer and his boys follwed to enjoy
the fun, which came pretty quickly.
The rest of the hogs saw what they
thought was bear coming toward them,
and stampeded in great CONSERVATION for
the place where they had cotton through
the fence into the field. They scamper-
ed in wild confusion to the fence and
went through it like tornado, and soon
disappeared in the forest with the old
boar following the others, but still some.
what in the rear.
The farmer and his boys laughed hila.
riously at the ludicrous sight, and obser-
we'd it as long as it was possible, and then
went back to the house. That evening,
however, none of the hogs came up as
usual. Accordingly, after waiting for a
while, they went out and began calling
them; but the shrill sounds with rever-
berated echo died away in the surround.
ing forest without calling forth single
responsive grunt or squeal. They now
began toi suspect that the joke had been
carried further than they thought; but
hoping that the hogs would come up
next morning, went back to the house,
and after eating supper, retired.
The next morning came, however, but
still no hogs. They then commenced a
search for them, but could not find a sin.
gle. one Of the drove anywhere. The
farmer accordingly took his horse and
rode down through the country in the
direction in which the hogs had gone;
after searching and calling all day could
not find them.
The ensuing day he met party who
had come from the neighborhood Of Duck
River, some thirty miles distant, and
who, after some talk, said to him that he
had seen the most laughable sight the
day before that his eyes had ever rested
upon. The farmer, with some interest,
asked him what it was.
"Why," said he, "away down near
Duck River I seed a drove of about fifteen
or twenty hogs running for dear life, and
about one hundred yards behind them
was another one following as fast as his
legs could carry him. I didn't at first
know it was hog, because he had a bear
skin around him; but I soon discovered
how it was. Somebody or other had fix.
ed him that way, and the other hogs
thought it was a bear and were trying to
get away, and he was trying to catch up
with them and join them"
The joke was not nearly so funny to
the farmer, who, we believe, never did
get back scarcely any of the Drove